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SOMEWHERE 

-  IN  — - 

ALL  THE  WORLD 


A  CHALLENGE  TO  CHRISTIAN 
STUDENTS 


EMERGENT  NEED 

OF 

REINFORCEMENTS 

IN 

FOREIGN  FIELDS 

OF 

DISCIPLES  OF  CHRIST 


Joint  College  Recruitment  Visitation 
The  Foreign  Christian  Missionary  Society 
The  Christian  Woman’s  Board  of  Missions 


Published  for  the  Boards  by  the  College  of 
Missions,  Indianapolis,  Indiana,  January,  1919 


GRAHAii  Chapel 
College  of  .Missions,  Indianapolis 


The  New  Call 


T1  l-L  voice  of  America  calling  increasing  millions  of  her  sons 
to  the  righteous  defense  of  humanity  had  scarcely  died  away 
in  the  signing  of  the  armistice,  when  the  Foreign  Mission 
Boards  of  the  United  States  and  Canada  met  in  conference  in  New 
York  to  consider  the  necessity  and  means  of  greatly  augmenting  the 
Christian  forces  in  the  foreign  fields  of  the  world. 

The  conference  confronted  a  serious  situation,  for  the  follow¬ 
ing  reasons:  (1)  In  some  areas  the  number  of  missionaries  has 
actually  been  depleted  by  the  war;  (2)  hundreds  of  young  men  and 
women  who  during  the  last  four  years  would  normally  have  gone 
out  as  missionaries  to  many  lands  have  been  drawn  into  military 
service  or  its  attendant  activities,  many  of  them  having  paid  the 
supreme  sacrifice,  or  having  been  incapacitated  for  foreign  Christian 
work;  (3)  in  every  mission  field  the  tumult  of  nations  has  precipi¬ 
tated  opportunities  and  needs  so  vastly  enlarged  that  the  present 
forces  are  less  adequate  than  ever  to  cope  with  them.  In  the  face  of 
unprecedented  conditions  and  demands  the  relative  disparity  of 
workers  is  probably  greater  now  than  at  any  time  in  the  past  his¬ 
tory  of  Christendom.  The  need  of  reinforcements  is  correspond¬ 
ingly  patent  and  com.manding. 

The  Boards  of  the  United  States  and  Canada  have  therefore 
])uhlished  from  the  above-mentioned  conference  the  following  joint 
appeal  lo  the  young  manhood  and  womanliocd  of  today: 


Message  of  the  Boards 

The  war  is  over!  The  battle  for  the  ideals  of 
righteousness,  justice  and  truth  has  been  won! 
The_ victory  has  cost  enormously  in  money,  suffer¬ 
ing,  sorrow  and  life-blood.  Men  have  willingly 
sacrificed  everything,  including  life,  rather  than 
yield  their  principles.  They  have  left  a  legacy  of 
heroic  service  that  must  be  neither  forgotten  nor 
lost.  The  banner  they  have  carried  forward  in 
war  must  be  held  high  in  the  days  of  peace.  This 
privilege  belongs  peculiarly  to  the  young  manhood 
and  womanhood  of  this  generation.  The  new  task 
will  be  harder  than  the  old,  for  it  will  be  shorn  of 
the  glamour,  the  excitement  and  the  pageantry  of 
war.  d’he  war  was  won  with  armies.  It  will  take 


more  than  armies  to  keep  it  won.  It  will  require 
men  who  have  the  power  to  see  and  follow  ideals 
when  the  world  has  lost  sight  of  them;  men  who 
have  the  capacity  to  draw  their  motives  from  un¬ 
seen  and  hidden  sources ;  men  who  have  wills 
strong  enough  to  remain  faithful  and  patient  when 
God  is  working  in  his  ordinary  and  more  delib¬ 
erate  ways. 

The  Christian  Church  must  accept  this  chal¬ 
lenge.  Upon  the  ministers  at  home  and  the  mis¬ 
sionaries  abroad  will  devolve  the  leadership.  Our 
appeal  is  to  those  who  have  heard  the  call  of  war. 
The  call  of  peace  is  even  more  arresting.  The  war 
must  be  interpreted  to  the  nations  of  the  world. 
They  must  realize  that  spiritual  forces  are  more 
powerful  than  material,  that  righteousness  exalts 
a  nation,  that  brotherhood  and  not  rivalry  must 
determine  international  relationships  and  that  sac¬ 
rificial  service  is  essential  to  the  world’s  well-being. 
These  truths  are  at  the  heart  of  the  missionary 
message.  They  must  be  carried  to  the  ends  of 
the  world.  The  welfare  of  the  world  will  depend 
upon  men  who  have  incarnated  these  truths  in 
their  lives  and  are  willing  to  live  for  them. 

The  Mission  Boards  of  all  the  Churches  in  the 
United  States  and  Canada  have  consecrated  them¬ 
selves  to  this  task.  They  need  men  and  women  in 
larger  numbers  than  ever  before.  Every  phase  of 
the  work  needs  strengthening.  The  strongest  and 
finest  qualities  of  brain,  heart  and  hands  are  re¬ 
quired.  The  demand  is  for  ministers,  teachers, 
doctors,  agriculturists,  technical  workers,  business 
men.  God  can  use  every  talent  a  man  possesses. 
This  appeal  is  to  you.  We  are  face  to  face  with 
a  great  crisis.  It  is  the  day  of  opportunity  for 
young  men  and  women.  Again  can  it  be  said 
Christ  has  gathered  his  disciples  about  Him  and 
with  greater  intensity  than  ever  before  is  saying: 

“Go  ye  therefore  and  make  disciples  of  all  the  na¬ 
tions,  baptizing  them  into  the  name  of  the  Father  and 
of  the  Son  and  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  teaching  them  to 
observe  all  things  ivhatsoever  I  commanded  you;  and 
lo,  J  am  with  you  always,  even  unto  the  end  of  the 
world:’ 


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SPECIAL  CALL  OF  THE  FOREIGN  CHRISTIAN  MISSION¬ 
ARY  SOCIETY  AND  THE  CHRISTIAN  WOMAN’S 

BOARD  OF  MISSIONS 


1.  Emergent  Appeals  and  Obligations. — The  Disciples  of 
Christ  share  in  the  critical  situation  and  unparalleled  challenge 
which  faces  the  foreign  missions  of  all  Christian  communions. 
From  each  of  the  twelve  principal  countries  (beyond  the  United 
States  and  Canada),  where  our  work  is  established  or  projected, 
have  come  urgent  appeals  for  more  missionaries.  Some  of  these 
appeals  were  reported  prior  to  1914.  In  both  intensity  and  num¬ 
ber  they  have  grown  immensely  during  the  war.  At  the  outbreak 
of  hostilities  the  Foreign  Christian  Missionary  Society  and  the 
Christian  Woman’s  Board  of  Missions  had  already  adopted  plans  of 
considerable  extension,  especially  in  China,  India  and  Africa.  The 
Woman’s  Board  had  accepted  large  responsibilities  in  Mexico  and  in 
South  America. 

2.  The  Call  of  the  Hour. — To  meet  these  obligations  and  to 
embrace  the  still  larger  and  unescapable  opportunities  opened  by 
the  war  in  all  the  fields,  the  two  Boards  hereby  issue  a  united  call 
for  reinforcements. 

Here  is  the  call : 

One  hundred  and  fifty-six  new  missionaries  are 
needed  urgently  and  immediately  in  our  foreign 
fields. 

3.  A  Challenge  to  Students. — To  the  whole  Brotherhood  of 
Disciples  of  Christ  the  need  is  announced,  but  it  will  be  especially 
presented  in  our  colleges,  to  which  the  Church  must  continue  to 
look  for  her  trained  leaders.  Christian  students  are  to  be  pre-emi¬ 
nently  the  knights  of  this  new  crusade.  The  challenge  will  be 
heard  not  only  by  men  and  women  now  in  college,  but  by  our  sol¬ 
dier-students  who  have  fought  in  France,  or  have  been  drilled  in 
American  camps: 

“The  Son  of  God  goes  forth  to  war  .  .  . 

Who  follows  in  His  train?” 


Dr.  William  E.  Macklin 
(Thirty-three  years  in  China) 


The  New  Missionaries 


This  conspectus  indicates  the  geographical  distribution  of  the 
reinforcements  so  urgently  needed  in  the  different  departments  of 
service. 


CHINA : 

A.  Foreign  Christian  Missionary  Society 


Evangelists:  Man  and  wife  for  ChucJiow . . .  2 

Man  and  wife  for  Wuweichow  (outstation 

of  IFuIiu) . . - . . .  2 

Man  and  wife  for  Luchowfu _ _ _  2 

Educationalists:  Man  and  wife  for  Nanking  (the  University 

of  Nanking ) . . . . . . .  2 

Single  woman  for  Nanking  (Miss  Lyon’s 

Girls’  School )  . . . . . . .  1 

Man  and  wife  for  Luchowfu  (Boys’ 
Boardin"  School).. . . . . .  2 

O 

Single  woman  for  Chuchow  (Girls’ 

School )  . . . . . .  1 

Single  woman  for  Wuhu _ _ _ _ _  1 

Ehrsicians:  Man  and  wife  for  Nanking  (the  Univer¬ 
sity  of  Nanking  Hospital ) _ _ _ _  2 

JSurses:  Trained  nurse  (young  woman)  for  the 

hospital  at  Luchowfu . . . . .  1 


B.  Christian  Woman’s  Board  of  Missions 


Educationalists:  Single  woman  for  Luchowfu . .  1 

Single  woman  for  Nanking  (Ginling  Col¬ 
lege)  . . . . . . .  1 

C.  Joint  Station  of  C.  W.  B.  M.  and  F.  C.  M.  S. 

Evangelists:  Man  and  wife  for  Nantungchow .  2 

Educationalists:  Man  and  wife  for  Nantungchow _ _  2 

Th  ree  single  women  for  Nantungchow .  3 

M  an  and  wife  for  Nantungchow  (practical 
chemist )  . . . . . . .  2 


Ehysicians:  Man  and  wife  for  Nantungchow  (Hos- 


])ital )  . . . . . . .  2 

ISurses:  Trained  nurse  for  Nantungchow .  1 


Total  for  China 


30 


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INDIA ; 


A.  Christian  Woman’s  Board  of  Missions 

Evangelists:  Two  men  and  wives  and  three  single 

women  for  extension  of  work  in  existing 
stations  and  for  opening  new  stations....  7 

Educationalists:  Two  single  women  for  Bilaspur  (Burgess 

Memorial  Girls’  School) . . .  2 

Physicians:  Man  and  wife  for  Bina . . . . .  2 

Two  single  woman  doctors  to  be  assigned 
where  most  needed . . . .  2 

1\ arses:  Two  trained  nurses  for  hospitals  and  dis¬ 
pensaries  . . . - . .  2 


B.  Foreign  Christian  Missionary  Society 


Evangelists : 


Educationalists : 


Printers: 


Agriculturists : 


Two  men  and  wives;  one  of  the  couples 
to  strengthen  an  existing  station,  the 
other  to  open  new  work... . . 

Three  single  women . . . 

Man  and  wife  for  Bible  College  or  High 
School  at  Jubbulpore . . . 

Two  single  women . . . . . . . 

Man  and  wife,  a  publisher  for  the  Mission 
Press  at  Jubbulpore . . . . 

Man  and  wife  to  direct  Orphanage  Farm 
at  Danioh . . . . . 


TIBET: 

Foreign 
Evangelists : 


Total  for  India . . .  3 

Christian  Missionary  Society 

Two  men  and  wives  for  new  station  at 
Chambdo  . . . . . . . 


Physicians : 


Two  men  and  wives  for  new  station  at 
Chambdo  . . . . 


JAPAN: 


Total  for  Tibet . . . 

Foreign  Christian  Missionary  Society 


Evangelists:  Two  men  and  wives  for  Tokyo . 

Man  and  wife  for  Akita . 

Man  and  wife  for  Fukushima . 

Two  men  and  wives  for  new  station  at 


Tsuruoka  . . .  4 

Evangelists  and  Six  single  women.. . . . . . . .  6 

Kindergartners :  - 


Total  for  Japan 


8 


18 


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PHILIPPINES : 

Foreign  Christian  Missionary  Society 

Evangelists:  Man  and  wife  for  work  in  the  Northern 

Ilocano  Field . . . . . .  2 

Educationalists:  Man  and  wife  for  Manila  (Union  Semi¬ 
nary  and  Bible  College) . . .  2 

Physicians:  Man  and  wife  for  Vigan  (Hospital).. .  2 

Total  for  Philippines _ _  6 


AFRICA  (Belgian  Congo) : 

Joint  Mission  of  the  F.  C.  M.  S.  and  the  C.  W.  B.  M. 

Evangelists:  Four  men  and  wives;  two  couples  for  ex¬ 

isting  stations,  and  two  for  occupying 

new  territory . . . . .  8 

Two  single  women  for  evangelistic  and 
school  work . . . . . . .  2 


Physicians:  Three  men  and  wives;  one  couple  for  an 

established  station,  two  couples  for  new 
stations  . . . . .  6 


Nurses:  Three  trained  nurses  (young  women)  for 


hospitals  . . .  3 

Total  for  Congo. . . . . .  19 


LATIN  AMERICA 

Christian  Woman’s  Board  of  Missions 
ARGENTINA : 

Evangelists:  Two  men  and  wives  for  Buenos  Aires .  4 

Two  men  and  wives  for  new  station  in 
Entre  Rios  or  Corrientes .  4 

Educationalists:  Two  men  and  wives  for  Buenos  Aires .  4 

One  single  man  for  Buenos  Aires .  1 

One  single  woman  (primary  teacher)  for 

Buenos  Aires . . . . .  1 

(All  for  Boys’  School — Colegio  Amer¬ 
icano.) 


Social  Workers:  Man  and  wife  for  Christian  Social  Service 


in  Buenos  Aires .  2 

Total  for  Argentina . . .  16 


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PARAGUAY 


Evangelists : 
Educationalists : 


URUGUAY : 

Educationalists : 

MEXICO: 

Evangelists : 

Educationalists : 

Social  W orkers : 

PORTO  RICO: 

Evangelists : 

JAMAICA : 

Evangelists : 


Man  and  wife  for  new  station  at  Asuncion  2 

Two  men  and  wives, 

Two  single  women, 

One  single  man, 

(All  for  proposed  schools  at  Asuncion)  7 
Total  for  Paraguay.... . . . . .  9 


Man  and  wife  for  Montevideo  ( professor¬ 
ship  in  proposed  Union  Theological 


Seminary  )  . . . . .  2 

Total  for  Uruguay . . . . . . .  2 


Two  men  and  wives  for  new  territory  in 

Zacatecas  . . . . . . . . . 

Man  and  wife  for  San  Luis  Potosi . . 

Two  single  women  for  Saji  Luis  Potosi...... 

Man  and  wife  for  Mexico  City  (professor¬ 
ship  in  Union  Theological  Seminary)..  2 
Two  single  women  for  Aguas  Calientes....  2 

Man  and  wife  for  Christian  Institute  work 
at  Aguas  Calientes . . . . .  2 


Total  for  Mexico . . . . . .  14 

Man  and  wife  to  reinforce  present  work....  2 


Total  for  Porto  Rico. . . . . .  2 


Experienced  minister  and  wife .  2 

Total  for  Jamaica .  2 

Grand  Total . . . ....156 


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to  to  4:^ 


!\Iiss  Elma  Irelan  of  Mexico 
Has  served  in  that  land  nearly  fourteen  years 


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The  Demand  Is  Imperative 

So  imperative  is  the  demand  for  these  new  missionaries  that, 
if  the  entire  number  of  156  were  immediately  forthcoming  and 
adequately  prepared,  they  would  all  be  sent  to  the  fields  this  very 
year. 

The  Support  Is  Sure 

The  Boards  make  this  bold  declaration  in  the  established  faith 
that  personal  dedication  elicits  financial  response.  Spiritual  de¬ 
cisions  attract  supporting  dollars.  The  devotion  of  lives  surren¬ 
dered  to  Christ’s  program  of  world-redemption  has  acquired  a  new 
leverage  on  Christian  wealth.  The  war  has  stimulated  the  Church 
by  demonstrating  how  potent  has  been  the  sacrificial  enlistment  of 
America’s  youth  to  release  abundantly  the  lesser  treasure  of  her 
gold.  At  the  dawn  of  a  new  age  of  high  enterprise  and  ardent  hope 
for  all  nations,  no  appeal  to  the  unrealized  resources  of  the  Dis¬ 
ciples  of  Christ  could  be  so  irresistible  as  the  enlistment  now  of  a 
new  foreign  legion  ready  to  answer  the  call  of  the  world  in  the  lands 
that  look  to  us  for  the  Gospel.  If  the  workers  were  at  once  avail¬ 
able,  the  additional  funds  for  their  equipment,  dispatch  and  main¬ 
tenance  would  undoubtedly  be  supplied. 

Tlie  Call  to  Women 

Th  is  call  may  be  militant  in  its  form  but  it  is  not  masculine  in 
its  restrictions.  The  modernity  of  the  missionary  enterprise  is  evi¬ 
denced  by  its  challenge  alike  to  the  sons  and  daughters  of  this  gen¬ 
eration  to  labor  side  by  side,  moved  by  the  love  of  God,  for  the 
uplift  of  all  mankind.  The  call  comes  with  equal  insistence  and 
equal  privilege  to  women  and  to  men.  The  fact  that  of  the  156 
recruits  required,  48  single  women  and  49  wives  of  missionaries 
are  asked  for,  attests  the  vast  range  of  opportunity  open  to  woman’s 
service  and  leadership  in  all  spheres  of  missionary  activity. 

Prepared  Leaders  Required 

It  is  hoped  that  no  inconsiderable  number  of  college  men  and 
women,  who  are  educationally  prepared  and  experienced  in  Chris¬ 
tian  work  in  America,  can  be  found  to  consider  immediate  accep¬ 
tance  of  some  of  the  great  life-opportunities  indicated  in  the  above 
conspectus.  There  should  be  many  students  and  recent  graduates, 
not  yet  sufficiently  prepared,  who  will  enter  at  the  earliest  possible 
moment  upon  the  special  training  necessary  to  equip  them  for  these 
world-significant  tasks.  This  call  lays  its  claim  also  on  college  pro¬ 
fessors.  Why  should  not  some  faculty  members  lead  the  way  as 
volunteers? 

The  Societies  will  make  a  special  appeal  to  the  colleges,  uni¬ 
versities,  and  seminaries.  They  request  the  co-operation  of  the 
faculties  of  the  institutions  they  visit,  and,  above  all,  the  prayers  of 


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the  Brotherhood  that  the  needed  candidates  may  offer  themselves 
for  the  work. 

"The  harvest  is  rich,  l)ut  the  laborers  are  few; 

Pray  ye  therefore  the  Lord  of  the  harvest 

riiat  He  will  send  forth  laborers  into  His  harvest.” 


How  to  Adflress  Correspondence 

Applications  to  the  Foreign  Christian  Missionary  Society  should 
be  addressed  to  Stephen  J.  Corey,  Secretary,  Box  884,  Cincinnati, 
Ohio. 

Candidates  for  fields  of  the  Christian  Woman’s  Board  of  Mis¬ 
sions  will  please  write  to  the  President,  Mrs.  Anna  R.  Atwater,  Col¬ 
lege  of  Missions  Building,  Indianapolis,  Indiana. 

Regarding  fields  where  the  two  societies  are  carrying  on  the 
work  jointly  (e.  g.  Belgian  Congo  and  Nantungchow,  China),  ap¬ 
plications  may  be  sent  to  either  Mr.  Corey  or  Mrs.  Atwater. 

Inquiries  regarding  the  preparation  necessary  for  foreign  serv¬ 
ice  may  be  addressed  to  Charles  T.  Paul,  President  of  the  College 
of  Missions,  Indianapolis,  Indiana. 

WHY  FOREIGN  MISSIONARY  SERVICE  SHOULD 
APPEAL  TO  STUDENTS  IN  THIS  HOUR 


1.  The  Christian  War,  In  this  hour,  as  in  no  other,  Chris¬ 
tian  character  demands  the  moral  equivalent  of  war.  Foreign  mis¬ 
sionary  service  provides  this  in  an  outstanding  way.  The  young 
man  wishing  to  sustain  his  hight  spirit  of  courage  and  devotion  to 
a  great  cause  should  not  leave  the  foreign  missionary  call  uncon¬ 
sidered.  The  challenge  of  the  work  in  non-Christian  lands  is  high 
and  bold  and  compelling.  Foreign  missionary  conquest  is  a  war¬ 
fare,  and  it  appeals  to  the  pioneer  and  dauntless  spirit.  In  fact,  a 
courageous,  young,  Christian  man,  in  this  hour,  who  has  the  proper 
training  and  qualifications  for  it,  will  find  himself  under  the  neces¬ 
sity  of  establishing  real  reasons  why  he  should  not  go  as  a  foreign 
missionary. 

2.  The  New  Unselfishness.  A  new  thrill  has  come  to 
American  manhood.  The  young  men  who  have  gone  to  the  front 
have  been  fighting  for  sacred  ideals,  for  human  freedom,  for  the 
liberation  of  women  and  little  children.  Many  of  those  who  have 
stayed  at  home  have  had  the  same  lofty  purpose.  There  is  a  new 
unselhshness  in  the  world  today.  America  has  been  giving  her 
young  life  not  only  for  others,  but  for  other  lands  and  other  races. 
W  e  have  been  crusaders  on  a  distant  continent  in  a  great  cause. 
The  same  dominant  note  runs  through  the  call  for  service  in  dis¬ 
tant  mission  fields. 


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3.  America’s  World-Relations.  America  has  a  new  ac¬ 
quaintance  with  the  world.  We  have  formerly  been  the  most  pro¬ 
vincial  of  the  Christian  nations.  We  are  now  one  of  the  most 
neighborly  and  far-reaching  in  our  sympathies.  Because  our  country 
was  satisfied,  selfish  and  provincial  in  its  policies,  it  was  difficult 
before  the  war  for  us  to  think  in  world  terms.  It  is  easy  now.  Our 
living  and  planning  for  the  future  will  touch  the  ends  of  the  earth. 
Every  one  who  thinks  will  have  an  interest  in  foreign  lands  from 
now  on.  The  war  has  introduced  us  to  mankind.  God  pity  us  if  we 
shrink  within  ourselves  again ! 

4.  The  Great  Surrender,  It  is  now  perfectly  natural  to 
discuss  self-denial.  The  “sacrihce”  of  foreign  missionary  service 
will  scarcely  be  mentioned  again.  The  men  or  women  who  have 
given  their  all  at  the  front  for  the  freedom  of  the  world  will  not 
dare  again  to  have  mental  reservations  about  the  distance  of  Tibet 
or  the  loneliness  of  Africa.  The  parents  who  were  willing  to  give 
all  their  sons  for  the  war  will  hardly  refuse  to  release  one  for  for¬ 
eign  missionary  service  now. 

5.  The  Lure  of  the  Lntried.  The  war  will  leave  a  great 
unsatisfied  longing  in  the  hearts  of  men.  The  man  who  went  to  the 
front  will  not  readily  adjust  himself  to  an  ordinary  service  when  he 
gets  home.  The  boys  who  wore  the  khaki  and  did  not  reach  the 
fighting  line  will  be  unsatisfied  without  doing  some  big  thing  in  the 
future.  Many  boys  of  the  Students’  Army  Training  Corps  are  chag¬ 
rined  and  adrift.  They  had  hoped  to  serve,  but  their  camps  have 
been  disbanded.  The  possibility  for  a  rare  and  unselfish  life-work 
will  appeal  to  them  more  than  ever  before. 

6.  The  Divine  Draft.  We  have  become  used  to  the  draft 
principle  of  service.  Our  soldier  boys  have  become  accustomed  to 
taking  orders.  If  we  are  leaders  and  lay  upon  our  Christian  young 
men  the  burden  of  the  Divine  draft  for  sacrificial  service,  they  will 
accept  it.  Our  men  and  women  will  be  as  true  to  the  call  of  Christ 
when  they  recognize  it  as  they  were  to  the  call  of  the  country. 

7.  The  Specialized  Task,  There  are  more  specific  open¬ 
ings  for  specially  trained  men  and  women  now  than  ever  before. 
Foreign  missionary  work  is  being  more  thoroughly  organized  along 
social  lines  than  formerly.  It  will  now  be  easier  for  strong  people 
who  have  a  special  type  of  training  to  find  a  place  where  their  spe¬ 
cific  equipment  will  fit  into  the  work. 

o.  The  Home  Fires  Burning.  The  Church  at  home  will 
not  need  to  he  converted  to  a  universal  enterprise  in  the  future. 
With  the  new  world-consciousness  will  come  a  new  sense  of  world- 
responsibility.  The  Church  will  now  send  people  to  mission  lands 
with  a  determination  to  back  them  up  in  the  great  enterprise  as 
never  before.  The  home  fires  of  intelligent  co-operation,  support 
and  prayer  will  burn  with  unwonted  brightness,  and  shine  to  the 
uttermost  lands. 


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9.  The  New  W  orld-Neighborhood,  Distance  lias  lieen 
eliminated.  The  world  is  a  startled  and  humbled  neighborhood. 
Since  two  million  of  our  men  have  crossed  the  sea  for  a  great  cause, 
the  ocean  will  be  no  longer  a  barrier  to  a  life-work.  One  may  in¬ 
deed  say,  ‘T  saw  a  new  heaven  and  a  new  earth,  for  the  first  heaven 
and  the  first  earth  are  passed  away;  and  the  sea  is  no  more.’"  The 
ocean,  which  was  formerly  a  mysterious  and  terrible  barrier,  is  now 
even  more  than  a  highway;  it  is  a  doorwav  to  all  the  peoples  of  the 
earth. 


THOUGHTS  FOR  STUDENTS 

Quod  Erat  Demonstrandum 

I'his  is  what  the  Hon.  Ion  Keith  Falconer,  brilliant  Cambridge  student, 
and  later  professor  of  Arabic  in  his  alma  mater,  thought  of  the  missionary 
obligation  resting  upon  the  college  men  of  his  day: 

“While  vast  continents  are  shrouded  in  almost  utter  darkness, 
and  hundreds  of  millions  suffer  the  horrors  of  heathenism  or  of 
Islam,  the  burden  of  proof  lies  upon  you  to  show  that  the  circum¬ 
stances  in  which  God  has  placed  you  were  meant  by  Him  to  keep 
you  out  of  the  foreign  mission  field.” 

This  challenge  to  think  and  pray  the  problem  through  concluded  his 
last  address  in  Scotland  before  he  gave  his  life  for  Arabia.  He  died  at  Shaikh 
Othman  in  1887. 


To  have  no  share  in  the  greatest  work  ever  given  the  children  of  men 
to  do  is  to  invite  self-impoverishment  and  to  miss  the  greatest  blessing  that 
God  is  waiting  to  give  to  those  who  obey  Him. — A.  McLean  (President 
F.  C.  M.  SJ. 


There  is  a  shining  path  from  the  army  of  your  country  to  the  army  of 
Christ  on  the  mission  field.  Some  of  the  most  eminent  missionaries  have  been 
military  men.  Dr.  J.  M.  Davis,  a  graduate  of  Beloit  College,  who  gave  thirty- 
nine  wonderful  years  to  Japan,  under  the  American  Board  (Congregational), 
was  a  Lieutenant-Colonel  of  Volunteers  in  the  Civil  War.  Our  own  Charles  E. 
Garst,  who  went  also  to  Japan  under  the  Foreign  Society  in  1883,  and  labored 
till  he  fell  in  1898,  was  a  West  Point  graduate  who  served  his  country  several 
years  Imfore  he  answered  the  call  of  the  East. 


The  missionary  enterprise  is  the  Christian  campaign  for  international 
good-will. — Harry  Emerson  Fosdick. 


One  of  our  greatest  needs,  if  we  are  to  meet  the  demands  of  the  new 
time,  is  a  renewed  sense  of  the  reality  of  God’s  call  to  each  individual. — 
J.  II.  Oldham. 


J’he  while  1  listened  came  a  Voice 
I  did  not  know,  1  could  not  see; 

But  when  my  waiting  spirit  heard, 

1  said:  “Lord,  here  am  1;  send  me.” 

— Phillips  Brooks. 


Are  you  waiting  for  God's  call,  or  is  God  waiting  for  your  answer? 

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